Sunday’s nine-race card at Aqueduct was canceled due to high winds, according to track officials. Both Aqueduct and Belmont Park were to remain open for simulcasting.

According to Glen Kozak, NYRA’s vice president/facilities and racing surfaces, the National Weather Service has issued a wind advisory for sustained winds from 20 to 30 miles per hour, with gusts ranging from 45 to 55 mph, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Kozak said the cancellation did not have to do with temperatures that were in the low 20s Sunday morning.

ARCADIA, Calif. - The pick six pool on Sunday is expected to exceed $1 million at Betfair Hollywood Park, a program that begins with a two-day carryover of $226,598.

An upset win by Royally Dunn ($136) in Saturday’s fourth eliminated most tickets in the first leg of the pick six. Going into the ninth race, five horses were not covered in the pick six. The carryover was clinched when Only the Gold ($85.20) caught 2-1 favorite Afflication in the final strides. If Afflication had won, the pick six would have been hit.

Zia Park has received approval from the New Mexico Racing Commission to move a group of stakes lost to inclement weather Saturday and Sunday to a special Wednesday program. The track had carded seven major races over the two-day span, with Sunday’s inaugural $300,000 Zia Park Oaks the centerpiece of a program with five stakes worth $845,000.

Zia Park said late Saturday that it had received verbal approval for the Wednesday card and for an additional makeup card Friday catering to overnight races. 

Zia Park in Hobbs, N.M., canceled Saturday’s card after the first race due to unseasonably cold weather and canceled Sunday’s program featuring five stakes, including the $300,000 Zia Park Oaks. The stakes could be run Wednesday, but a Zia Park official said the track must first seek permission from the New Mexico Racing Commission.

Penn National racing officials probably had their fingers crossed, hoping their quartet of Thanksgiving Eve stakes, topped by the $250,000 Fabulous Strike Handicap for sprinters, would lure at least one horse who competed in the Breeders’ Cup earlier this month.

The list of nominees to the Fabulous Strike included three runners exiting the BC Sprint – winner Secret Circle, third-place Gentlemen’s Bet, and also-ran Private Zone, the winner of the Grade 1 Vosburgh – along with Tightend Touchdown, who outran his 18-1 odds to get second in the BC Turf Sprint.

OZONE PARK, N.Y. – Three horses were to be scratched from Saturday’s New York Stallion Stakes races at Aqueduct because they were incorrectly allowed to be supplemented to their respective races, according to racing officials.

The eligibility of a fourth horse was being evaluated by New York Racing Association attorneys Friday afternoon.

Three trainers at Penn National Race Course in Grantville, Penn., were arrested on Friday morning following the release of indictments charging the trainers with attempting to fix horse races by administering illegal raceday medications to horses, the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced on Friday.

The trainers were Patricia Rogers, Sam Webb, and David Wells, who trained Rapid Redux, a popular gelding who was retired in 2012 after setting a modern U.S. record of 22 straight wins.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Cyclotron could have been another in a long line of outstanding sprinters trained by Bruce Headley, but his career lasted only four starts.

“Every time he worked, he worked in black letters,” Headley said. “But he cracked his foot in half. He had a deformed foot. He still came back and won in [1:08.80]. I said I’m going to breed him.”

INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Santa Anita’s upcoming sixth-month season will be divided into two meetings and the track will raise the purse of the Santa Anita Derby to $1 million, officials said during a California Horse Racing Board meeting on Thursday at Betfair Hollywood Park. Santa Anita also will offer fewer daily doubles but with a lower takeout, and Friday evening racing from late April to late June.

INGLEWOOD, Calif. - Hall of Fame trainer Bob Baffert did not violate any California Horse Racing Board rules when seven of his horses based at Betfair Hollywood Park died suddenly during a 16-month period ending in March, the racing board was told on Thursday.

Equine medical director Dr. Rick Arthur told the racing board that necropsy reports conducted on the horses revealed no presence of illegal medications, but said that the high incidents of such deaths in one stable was exceptional.